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Designs for the 21st Century "Tuna War" (Continued, from page 21)

Cygnus Marine, located at the other end of the country in Cornwall, renowned over the years as the

U.K's most prolific builder of GRP crabbers, netters, potters, longliners and small trawlers with a multi- tude of well proven molds, has re- cently shipped three identical 33-ft. (10-m) longliners to the Seychelles.

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Marine&lndustrial Equipment Dept. (Continued from page 20) survivors is situated in a dedicated survivor space forward of the fuel tank space with access from the wheelhouse and the foredeck. This area also houses a toilet, galley and stowage for lifejackets.

The wheelhouse has seating for six crew and an honorary medical advisor. The coxswain's seat is on the port side of the wheelhouse un- like in other RNLI boats where it is on the centerline.

A flying bridge situated on the wheelhouse top provides repeat en- gine controls and monitoring equip- ment, steering and some communi- cation equipment.

Electronics on both boats includes an echosounder, speed log, anemom- eter, GPS satnav, medium frequency radio transmitter and receiver, VHF radio, MF/VHF direction finder and an intercom system.

To date, an early prototype Trent has performed in line with expecta- tions while on temporary station duty at Alderney in the Channel Isles, and the first production vessel has now been accepted at Ramsgate.

Eight additional Trent class and four

Severn class lifeboats are now in various stages of completion with the first Severn due to enter service at Stornaway early next year. Pre- production examples of each have undertaken a circumnavigation of the British Isles to obtain wider ex- perience of different environments and to enable as many different people as possible to comment upon them.

Selected builders and outfitters are in the main located on England's south coast and include FBM Ma- rine, Halmatic, Berthon Boat Co., and renowned lifeboat builder Will- iam Osborne, of Souter and

Osborne. Much of the selection pro- cess has had to be based around the few existing yards which can deal effectively with the special demands of FRC construction. FBM Marine and Halmatic, for example, have in recent years invested considerable amounts of money in improving GRP/

FRC facilities.

In addition to the conventional lifeboats, the RNLI, which last year raised $95 million from the British public for its operation, has also turned its attention to its substan- tial rigid inflatable fleet. As such, increased production of the Atlantic 75, designed and built by the RNLI at its Inshore Lifeboat Center in

Cowes on the Isle of Wight, is in hand. These boats, updates of the original Atlantic 21 which has been in operation since 1972, are capable of up to 34 knots and will join the

Trent and Severn in ensuring that the RNLI enters the 21st Century with all the makings of a modern fleet.

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